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The New York Stories of Henry James

The New York Stories of Henry James

Paperback

Series: New York Review Books Classics

General FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $22.95

ISBN10: 1590171624
ISBN13: 9781590171622
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: Nov 1 2005
Pages: 592
Weight: 1.25
Height: 1.22 Width: 4.84 Depth: 7.00
Language: English
Henry James led a wandering life, which took him far from his native shores, but he continued to think of New York City, where his family had settled for several years during his childhood, as his hometown. Here Colm Tóibín, the author of the Man Booker Prize-shortlisted novel The Master, a portrait of Henry James, brings together for the first time all the stories that James set in New York City. Written over the course of James's career and ranging from the deliciously tart comedy of the early An International Episode to the surreal and haunted corridors of The Jolly Corner, and including Washington Square, the poignant novella considered by many (though not, as it happens, by the author himself) to be one of James's finest achievements, the nine fictions gathered here reflect James's varied talents and interests as well as the deep and abiding preoccupations of his imagination. And throughout the book, as Tóibín's fascinating introduction demonstrates, we see James struggling to make sense of a city in whose rapidly changing outlines he discerned both much that he remembered and held dear as well as everything about America and its future that he dreaded most.

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